RE: svn:keywords - turn on by default

From my observations there is the mime type that SVN seems to detect
pretty good. That could be used for exclusion.

CVS has those exclusion files, or where those inclusion files?

Why not using a similar configuration or feature?

Andreas

-----Original Message-----
From: Blair Zajac [mailto:blair@orcaware.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 12:30 PM
To: Andreas Guther
Cc: users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: svn:keywords - turn on by default

On Aug 13, 2006, at 10:10 AM, Andreas Guther wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am unlucky in finding information on how to turn on per default the
> svn:keywords properties.
>
> So far all I can find and do is to either set the svn:keywords
> properties on a per file basis or recursively. I rather would like to
> tell the svn server to set the keywords per default and turn it off
> manually where needed.
>
> We have a standard header for our source files with different SVN
> keywords. But very often developers forget to turn set the properties
> for a new file. From time to time we then set the keywords
> recursively
> on the source tree but that results in a forced change/commit of all
> files.
>
> Is there a way to set the svn:keywords per default on the SVN server
> (implicit) rather than on a manual basis (explicit)?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Andreas

One of the reasons this is not done is for binary assets. You
wouldn't want a keyword replacement to automatically be done on a
shared library or image that randomly happened to contain any of the
keywords, which would break the file.

Use the svn_apply_autoprops.py script to run it across a working copy.

Regards,
Blair

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